Scores of school children played truant to attend the protest despite warnings from head teachers that they would face suspension. |
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Many of the truant students claim they were stressed out by exams or had problems getting along with classmates. |
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Maybe the authorities should put some structures in place, like perhaps a truant officer to accost these truants. |
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However, students who do not attend school may be similar to alternative school students, students who are often chronically absent or truant. |
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Under the scheme, truant pupils are identified and the welfare service tries to help them. |
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Children who are truant are not scared to go to school the way children with school refusal are. |
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Educational Advocates are ex-offenders who work to bring chronically truant youth back to school. |
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During that time, his 14-year-old brother became truant from school and began using narcotics. |
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Police officers have begun an operation to target truant schoolchildren in the town. |
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A mother brings her truant son to school to be flogged for neglecting his studies in favour of gambling. |
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After determining that she would not injure anyone, she had to attend school and not be truant. |
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Over a quarter of all secondary school pupils in Rochdale played truant last year. |
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One in every five secondary school pupils plays truant, according to Whitehall. |
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School was more often burdensome for girls than it was for boys, although boys were slightly more truant. |
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He sounded like the school headmaster quietly but firmly dressing down a truant pupil. |
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Children with school refusal differ in important ways from children who are truant, although the behaviors are not mutually exclusive. |
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Meanwhile, a number of important African American writers played truant from the school of racial realism. |
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A fifth of children said they felt unsafe in their communities and nearly 40 per cent of Year 11 pupils admitted playing truant. |
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Industry circles have started making calculations but the tastes of audiences are truant and calculations may go awry. |
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She often plays truant and stays home, where she is happiest working with Pa in his machine shop in the yard. |
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School chiefs in Swindon have been told to slap fines on parents or even put them in jail if their children play truant from school. |
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What is clear is that students who are doing well at school and are engaged and focused do not truant. |
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Five were found to be playing truant and their cases will be followed up by education welfare officers. |
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Ultimately, it is up to parents and teachers to ensure children do not play truant. |
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Far from truanting because they are stupid, it turns out many truant because they are clever. |
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Even as a fierce blizzard looms on the horizon, she finds herself with more than just a truant husband on her hands. |
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When I first started there were a number of pupils outside of lessons playing truant. |
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But only pupils who meet academic targets and do not play truant will get tickets. |
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From the third school year on, he played truant every month, and was very often late. |
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Here are the other truant titans, along with their stated reasons for missing the premier IFBB contest. |
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Two grown daughters in the family join the truant male whenever the old man launches into story. |
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There the boy is captured by Jack's colleagues, who have been commanded by the Lord to kill their truant captain. |
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Parents feel helpless in today's changing world and wonder how to cope with the truant child. |
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A paper girl and a notorious truant get entangled in a romance during a hot summer in Singapore. |
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A state's truant officers can also discipline the parents of delinquent students if they either aid or condone their children's misconduct. |
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Now any pupil who is suspected of playing truant will be asked to produce a note showing they have a valid reason for being away from school. |
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Sometimes, he says, an expensive car, its occupants rendered helpless by truant domestic help, will drive into a slum looking for them. |
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A police spokesman said he was angry over being expelled from school after forging a doctor's note as an excuse to stay off school and play truant. |
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Many Londoners took the opportunity to play truant from their responsibilities. |
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Lear's celebrated limericks demonstrate the antic disposition of a society that loved to play truant from its sober self. |
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When children play truant from a grammar, the school hauls them in and puts a stop to it. |
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There are fears that other parents could be tagged if they allow their children to persistently play truant from school. |
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These are all run by electricity and half the time the power is playing truant. |
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This is made manifest by children playing truant and inappropriate behaviour within schools. |
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Playing truant in the day, he would roam the outlying parts of Brooklyn, where there were still chicken farms. |
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Talking to a 16-year-old, she described playing truant two years ago to attend a Stop the War rally. |
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A common problem at government schools is that it is the teachers who play truant. |
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They play truant, breaking into local houses and making off with personal possessions — valuables, invaluables, junk. |
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Those poor people are like silly children who play truant, who do not attend classes, who search for escape. |
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The person is cheating himself of the benefit of travel if he plays truant from his job and then chides himself for not being at work. |
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Public perceptions of abandoned children and those living on the streets are that these children are truant. |
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Only children who come from wealthy non-traditional families are more likely to be truant. |
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Perhaps a child is truant from school for long periods of time, does not pay attention in class or becomes aggressive playing outside. |
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Two years ago, Teneille herself was a regular truant, falling behind and lacking the self-confidence to mix with other children. |
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Talking to some of these truant students we came to realize that they did not attend school because they had no parents to look after them. |
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Athy pupils will no longer be able to play truant and hope to get away with it, following the introduction of Ireland's first high tech electronic register. |
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The report also reveals police and education officers were often the target of verbal abuse from the parents who were caught allowing their children to play truant. |
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Statistical adjustments were also made based on the responses of students who indicated skipping classes in the past 30 days and being truant since school began in September. |
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He thought the School Board had found out he'd played truant. |
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You now have a situation where children are coming back to school but are frightened and upset and the children who really should be in school are still playing truant. |
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The verb mitch is very common in Ireland, indicating being truant from school. |
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Parenting orders' were also introduced, requiring parents of minors who have committed crimes or played truant to attend weekly courses for up to three months. |
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Certainly it has played truant from the negotiating table quite skilfully. |
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The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine. |
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This is a problem, but slippages happen across the ability spectrum, and lower-ability pupils have the added problems of being more likely to truant, be excluded or become unemployed. |
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They are more likely to play truant and run away from home. |
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This situation becomes all the more glaring when one considers the fact that in many of the poorer countries in Asia, a large proportion of children play truant. |
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He began to play truant and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. |
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Each school-day a quarter of Indian teachers play truant. |
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Cintra is an educational center in concert with the Department of Instruction of the autonomous government of Catalonia, providing obligatory secondary education for students who have been playing truant or who have failed. |
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Bernard occasionally managed to attend classes at the local grammar school, but he also spent a great deal of time playing truant and eventually ended up in borstal for a year. |
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By 14 he was playing truant and pilfering. |
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The plain fact is, recognized since time immemorial but increasingly disregarded, that every person should play truant from work and affairs at least one day a week. |
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There's now a generation raised on the transgressive menace of his imagination, a world that invites the reader to trespass on the dark side of human experience, and play truant from normality. |
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Wu, with close-cropped hair and a lineless face, wore a cardigan and a necktie and looked like a truant from boarding school. |
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The truant officer called at the home to see why the student hadn't arrived. |
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She had found her niche by being truant from school, giving people a bad time, and basically giving her parents' strict moral values a good, strong kick in the teeth. |
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As the story goes, once when Mencius was young, he was truant from school. |
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Truant teenagers are being targeted in a hard-hitting poster campaign at bus shelters across East Lancashire. |
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Most unsupervised and runaway boys were discharged to their families or enrolled in an ungraded public school, or Truant School. |
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